[Medical students' attitudes towards legalisation of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide]. / Medisinstudenters holdninger til legalisering av eutanasi og legeassistert selvmord.
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen
; 133(22): 2359-63, 2013 Nov 26.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
We wished to investigate prevailing attitudes among future doctors regarding legalisation of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. This issue is important, since any legalisation of these practices would confer a completely new role on doctors. MATERIAL ANDMETHOD:
Attitudes were identified with the aid of a questionnaire-based survey among medical students in their 5th and 6th year of study in the four Norwegian medical schools.RESULTS:
Altogether 531 students responded (59.5% of all students in these cohorts). Of these, 102 (19%) were of the opinion that euthanasia should be legalised in the case of terminal illness, 164 (31%) responded that physician-assisted suicide should be permitted for this indication, while 145 (28%) did not know. A minority of the respondents would permit euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in other situations. Women and those who reported that religion was important to them were less positive than men to permitting euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.INTERPRETATION:
In most of the situations described, the majority of the students in this survey rejected legalisation. Opinions are more divided in the case of terminal illness, since a larger proportion is in favour of legalisation and more respondents are undecided.
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Asunto principal:
Estudiantes de Medicina
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Eutanasia
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Suicidio Asistido
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
Nor
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Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen
Año:
2013
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Article